At least ten districts will go through orange warning phases in the coming days due to sea unrest or precipitation.
After thewhich brought a lot of rain and snow to mainland Portugal, Another week of adverse weather conditions is coming. Sunny days should only return next month.
This Sunday it will be “a day of transition”, points out the climatologist Mário Marques, with “a small relief, especially in the north”, where much of the snow has already “almost melted up to 800 m with the showers that came during the night”.
However, from Monday onwards the “harsh conditions”: it is expected “persistent and heavy precipitation” across the country, throughout the week.
Temperatures will rise slightly, but quickly fall again. are expected “temperature fluctuations, but without too much cold associated with it, as occurred the previous week”.
When will it stop raining? Probably only next month, he calculates Mario Marques.
“The rainy pattern we are experiencing, I think could last at least until the 5th or 6th of February, as I do not see the Azores anticyclone in a position that allows it to divert all the cyclogenesis associated with the jet stream that leaves the United States and is at a more southerly latitude, projecting the depressions associated with the frontal systems towards Western Europe and, in particular, towards our latitude.”
Ten districts under orange warning
The districts of Aveiro, Beja, Braga, Coimbra, Faro, Leiria, Lisbon, Porto, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo and Vila Real will go through phases of orange warning next few days due to sea disturbances or precipitation.
According to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the orange warning will cover maritime unrest in nine of these districts – the exception is Vila Real, whose orange alert, regarding precipitation, will be in force between 12:00 on Monday and 03:00 on Tuesday.
For this Sunday, the IPMA also left an orange warning for maritime unrest for the districts of Porto, Faro, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo, Lisbon, Leiria, Beja, Aveiro, Coimbra and Braga, warning of northwest waves measuring five to seven meters and reaching a maximum height of 12 meters.
This Sunday are also in force yellow precipitation warnings for Évora, Santarém, Lisbon, Leiria, Coimbra, Portalegre.
IPMA also issued several snow warnings in the districts of Guarda and Castelo Brancowarning of possible disruption caused by snowfall with accumulation and possible ice formation, as well as rain and wind.
For Monday, the IPMA launched the orange warning for precipitation in Braga, Viana do Castelo and Vila Real, with almost the entire territory under yellow warning due to rain and wind in the coming days.
The orange warning for maritime unrest will be repeated on Tuesday for the districts of Setúbal, Porto, Faro, Viana do Castelo, Lisbon, Leiria, Beja, Aveiro, Coimbra and Braga.
The orange warning is the second most serious and is issued by IPMA whenever there is a meteorological situation of moderate to high risk and the yellow warning when there is a risk situation for certain activities depending on the meteorological situation.
With Lusa
